Health; heath care facilities to purchase and sell charity care credits through an exchange to meet their indigent and charity care requirements; authorize

A BILL to be entitled an Act to amend Chapter 8 of Title 31 of the Official Code of Georgia Annotated, relating to the care and protection of indigent and elderly patients, so as to authorize health care facilities to purchase and sell charity care credits through an exchange to meet their indigent and charity care requirements; to provide for definitions; to provide for the creation of the Georgia Charity Care Exchange; to provide for contractual arrangements between health care facilities for the first two years; to provide for an annual report; to provide for creation of an oversight board; to provide for related matters; to repeal conflicting laws; and for other purposes.